Western Australian Current Acts

JURIES ACT 1957

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I -- Preliminary  

   1.      Short title and commencement
            
   3.      Terms used
            
   3A.     Application of this Act to District Court
            
   3B.     Courts and Tribunals (Electronic Processes Facilitation) Act 2013 Pt. 2 applies

   PART II -- Liability to serve as jurors  

   4.      Liability to serve as juror
            
   5.      Persons who are not eligible or not qualified or who are excused
            
   8.      Verdict not affected

   PART III -- Jury districts  

   9.      Jury districts
            
   10.     Area of jury districts
            
   11.     Transitional provisions for alterations or abolition of Assembly districts
            
   12.     Power to vary jury districts

   PART IV -- Jurors’ books, boxes and tickets  

   13.     Jury officers
            
   14.     Electoral Commissioner to prepare jury lists
            
   15.     Electoral Commissioner to prepare jury lists for new districts
            
   16A.    Sheriff to prepare jurors’ book for each district
            
   16.     Jurors’ tickets to be placed in boxes
            
   17.     Duty of police

   PART V -- Numbers of jury  

   18.     Number of jurors for a criminal trial
            
   19.     Number of jurors for a civil trial

   PART VA -- General jury precepts and panels  

   20.     General jury precepts
            
   21.     Summoning officer
            
   22.     Contents and issue of general jury precept
            
   23.     Number of jurors to be summoned
            
   24.     Oral precepts and amending or enlarging panel
            
   25.     Power of appointment of alternative summoning officer where summoning officer has interest in trial
            
   26.     Procedure for choosing jurors for criminal trials
            
   27.     Extra people to be summoned to make up for people not attending
            
   28.     Ticket of juror not attending to be returned to box
            
   29.     Choosing of jurors for civil trials
            
   29A.    Empanelling of jury for criminal and civil trials by computer
            
   30.     Rights of parties in criminal trials to inspect list of summoned jurors
            
   31.     Summoning of jurors

   PART VB -- Jury pools  

   32A.    Trials for which jury pools may be summoned
            
   32B.    Summoning officer for jury pools
            
   32C.    Selection of jury pool
            
   32D.    Summoning officer to issue summons
            
   32E.    Summoning officer may withdraw summons
            
   32F.    Summoning officer to provide details to jury pool supervisor
            
   32FA.   Jury pool supervisor to give identification number and explain certain matters to persons answering summons
            
   32G.    Pool precept
            
   32H.    Selection of jurors from jury pool
            
   32I.    Period of attendance at jury pool and discharge

   PART VC -- Serving summonses and excusing people

           Division 1 -- Serving summonses  

   33.     Service of summons
            
   33A.    Information to be given to summoned people
            
   34.     Duty of secrecy in summoning jurors
            
   34B.    Summoning officer to give identification number and explain certain matters to persons answering summons

           Division 2 -- Excusing people  

   34C.    Term used: summoned
            
   34D.    Division does not affect rights to challenge for cause
            
   34E.    Certificates permanently excusing people
            
   34F.    Summoned people may apply to be excused
            
   34G.    General powers to excuse summoned people
            
   34H.    Deferring jury duty for summoned people or excusing them for good reason
            
   34I.    People who are not indifferent, excusing
            
   34J.    People who have done jury duty in previous 5 years, excusing

   PART VI -- Proceedings relating to criminal trials  

   35.     Summoning officer to return precept and panel, and cards
            
   36.     Mode of empanelling jury for a criminal trial
            
   36A.    Juror to be referred to by identification number
            
   37.     Proceeding with another criminal trial when jury has retired
            
   39.     Accused persons severing in their challenges
            
   40.     Incorporation of certain provisions of Criminal Procedure Act 2004
            
   41.     Jury’s entitlements when together
            
   42.     Limit of attendance of jurors
            
   43.     Informalities in summoning jurors not to be cause for challenge
            
   43A.    Protection of security of jurors

   PART VII -- Proceedings at civil trials  

   44.     Payments for juries in civil trials
            
   45.     Challenge to the array
            
   46.     Discharge of juror
            
   47.     Jurors may be allowed heating and refreshment
            
   48.     Incapacity or non-attendance of juror
            
   49.     Majority decision to be accepted after 3 hours
            
   50.     New trial on disagreement

   PART VIII -- View, tales  

   51.     View by jury on a civil trial
            
   52.     Party in criminal trial may pray a tales

   PART IX -- Offences, fines, penalties  

   53.     Neglect by officials to perform duties
            
   54.     Offences by sheriff and others
            
   55.     Offences by jurors and others
            
   56.     Prejudicial actions against employees who do jury service

   PART IXA -- Jury confidentiality  

   56A.    Terms used
            
   56B.    Protected information not to be disclosed
            
   56C.    Protected information not to be solicited or obtained
            
   56D.    Protected information not to be published
            
   56E.    Lawful disclosure of protected information
            
   57.     Jurors not to be photographed

   PART X -- Miscellaneous  

   57A.    Grand Juries not to be summoned
            
   58.     Application of English procedure where no special provision
            
   58A.    Public not to be present when certain procedures are being followed
            
   58B.    Jury service, payments for
            
   59.     Enforcement of fines
            
   60.     Operation of Coroners Act
            
   61.     Rules of court
            
   62.     Regulations
           SCHEDULE 1 -- Classes of persons not eligible to be jurors
           SCHEDULE 2 -- Matters to be disclosed by a person appearing in answer to a summons to be a juror